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ON THE

LESSONS IN PROVERBS.

ON THE

LESSONS IN PROVERBS:

BEING

THE SUBSTANCE OF LECTURES

DELIVERED TO YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETIES

AT PORTSMOUTH AND ELSEWHERE.

BY

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, B.D.,

VICAR OF ITCHENSTOKE, HANTS;

EXAMINING CHAPLAIN TO THE LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD;
AND PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY, KING'S COLLEge, london.

THIRD EDITION,

REVISED.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND.

MDCCCLIV.

101. d. 514.
d.514.

PREFACE.

IT may be as well to state, that the lectures

which are here published were never delivered as a complete course, but only one here and two there, as matter gradually grew under my hands; yet so that very much the greater part of what is contained in this volume has been at one time or another actually delivered. Although I have always taken a lively interest in national proverbs, I had no intention at the first of making a book about them; but only selected the subject as one which I thought, though I was not confident of this, might afford me sufficient material for a single lecture, which I had undertaken some time ago to deliver. I confess that I was at the time almost entirely ignorant of the immense number and variety of books bearing on the subject. Many of these I still know only by name. With some of the best, however, I have made myself acquainted, and by their aid, with the addition of such further material as I could myself furnish, these lectures have assumed their present shape; and I publish them, because none of the works on proverbs

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